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  1. The Chinese State in Ming Society

    By Timothy Brook

    Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

    The Ming dynasty (1368-1644), a period of commercial expansion and cultural innovation, fashioned the relationship between state and society in Chinese history. This unique collection of reworked and heavily illustrated essays, by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, re-examines this...

    Published November 24th 2004 by Routledge

  2. Friend of China - The Myth of Rewi Alley

    By Anne-Marie Brady

    Series: Chinese Worlds

    This study is a radical and controversial analysis of the life and works of Rewi Alley utilizing both Chinese materials and previously unpublished materials from western sources. Rather than a biography as such, it is a revisionist history, re-examining what we know and understand about one of the...

    Published October 9th 2002 by Routledge

  3. Anglo-China

    Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1880

    By Christopher Munn

    A study of the first three decades of British rule in Hong Kong, focusing on the troubled and controversial process of establishing a British colony at Hong Kong and on the reception of British rule by people in the region....

    Published October 11th 2001 by Routledge

  4. Cold War in the High Himalayas

    The USA, China and South Asia in the 1950s

    By S Mahmud Ali, S. Mahmud Ali

    This text examines elite-insecurity perceptions in India, Pakistan and the USA in the 1950s. The book highlights the consequent linkages in alliance-building efforts and the subsequent triangular covert collaboration against Communist China, especially along Tibet's Himalayan frontiers. This...

    Published August 24th 1999 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. The Jesuit Missions to China and Peru, 1570-1610: Expectations and Appraisals of Expansionism
    By Ana Carolina Hosne
    To Be Published May 27th 2013
  2. Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday’s "Mao: The Unknown Story"
    Edited by Gregor Benton, Lin Chun
    To Be Published May 30th 2013
  3. Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China: Great Transformations Reconsidered
    By Francesca Bray
    To Be Published June 2nd 2013
  4. Women and the Literary World in Early Modern China, 1580-1700
    By Daria Berg
    To Be Published June 24th 2013
  5. The Military Collapse of China's Ming Dynasty, 1618-44
    By Kenneth M. Swope
    To Be Published August 15th 2013

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